skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you think it’s bad for white men, just wait till you hear what it’s like for black women

"Corporate America Promised to Hire a Lot More People of Color. It Actually Did.
The year after Black Lives Matter protests, the S&P 100 added more than 300,000 jobs — 94% went to people of color." - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-e...

A BestBuy & McKinsey leadership program open only to non-whites - https://web.archive.org/web/20220927170605/https://corporate...

London Mayor’s Transport Team Bans Whites from Internships - https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/05/21/london-mayors-transp...

Mind you these are official, openly stated policies. If this is what they admit to, imagine what they do more discreetly. And it's not just hiring - it's a "pipeline problem" - whites, especially non-Jewish whites, are the most underrepresented group in the Ivy League, by a significant margin - https://archive.org/download/ivy_league/ivy_league.png (2023 data)
I find it mostly right 70% of the time.
I was an Emacs user for years, then discovered Helix. I tried it on a whim and it turns out that I really enjoyed a modal editor that requires minimal config. I'm not sure if it's due to my an age, but I no longer want to constantly tweak my setup and just want a solid out of the box experience.
What I do is play language games with LLMs. And ask them to explain what I'm doing wrong, it's much nicer than Duolingo.
Still using Google I see? How primitive..
I've taken a few night trains. They were mostly a fun experience, but they weren't in general especially time or cost efficient (though you have to factor in saving a night of hotel).

It also helps if you're generally going city center to city center and aren't lugging large suitcases around. (Which you might think would be a better fit for trains but really aren't for the most part.)
I always choose standalone tools for formatting so that it can be integrated into any editor/IDE and checked by CI.
Many people also have the attitude that the meaning of life is to be productive. But often they miss life's point entirely.
I remember when the more tech savvy folks were migrating from Altavista and Yahoo to Google because they understood it is better sooner than others. The same thing is happening. I consider myself tech savvy (still!) and I have to admit that I rarely use Google for all sort of information.

As a side note: I am using Safari and I noticed that Apple's search is also replacing my Google searches. In the past if I knew name of a company or organization but not their website I'd Google it. Now I put it in the address bar and Safari very often finds the website for me.
And you believe banning DEI would make any discrimination go away? Isn’t it more likely to continue, if happening, with no evidence of it happening? If it’s invisible or hard to prove now, you would expect this to change? Does discrimination not occur today at orgs without DEI efforts?
I feel like the "Netflix original" label started to decline around the time they started disingenuously applying it to things that they merely distributed, not created. That was a sign that the company was willing to water down its brand quality to get people to watch stuff.
>>As a result, proprietary software essentially has an unlimited money cheat that they can use to plow into further development until greed starts seriously degrading the quality of software.

>Copyleft solves this. The problem is permissive licenses that lack copyleft, allowing privatization of codebases.

Copyleft only partially solves the problem. A company with enough resources can give you the code and you still can't effectively fork it unless you are also running a huge company, because making an incompatible product that lacks updates would be unacceptable. Other times, companies are so big that they essentially drive a whole open source ecosystem. Look at IBM's disproportionate influence on Linux. We certainly appreciate their contributions but many people disagree about the direction IBM has chosen, and their choices affect everyone because apps are usually built to cater to the lowest common denominator.

Another good example is Chromium. That project is copyleft but nobody wants an old out of date web browser because of security concerns. Even Microsoft could not keep up with their feature development so they forked it. But how different is their fork really? If they are to take code from upstream, it can't be very different.
Who do you think created all that stock value for him?
They don't like the politics of Brenden Eich.

As Lenin would say, "Who? Whom?"
We have enough space, but refuse to build affordable housing, for our citizens or for immigrants/asylum seekers. It's a fake problem conjured entirely from broken incentives and an utter lack of political will to fix them.
Libraries and librarians are starting to seem very relevant again. As are journalistic institutions.
most bad movies will be unintentionally hilarious, Netflix' bad movies will be intentionally worth a chuckle or two.
Describes my general experience with AI across the board. Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc. It’s like I’m talking to a genius toddler. With ChatGPT losing 5 billion dollars on 3.7B in revenue this is unsustainable. It feels like the dotcom bubble all over again.
Is it faster? I just did similar queries to the ones in the article and ChatGPT (web) spent a long time with an animated "Searching the web" placeholder, then served an error.
Causes, according to the article:

- High rent

> Research finds that where rents go up, so does homelessness

- Illegal border crossings

> HUD officials say another key factor was the recent increase in asylum seekers coming to the U.S.

- Extreme weather & Maui fire

It does not mention the opioid crisis.
I am wondering if this is not just "normal".

If we look back tech jobs have been growing fast since at least the 90s.

We have basically put everything on computer and the internet in the last decades with some obvious efficiency gains. But how far should we continue to invest in this and expecting a return on investment?

At the same time, in the west, agriculture or manufacturing jobs have been annihilated. Could they see that coming?

Probably no as it was not that obvious from their point of view.

At least in the west, first world or whatever you want to call it, most people need cheaper housing, cheaper energy, less taxes and bureaucracy. This is just what most young people complain about.

People do not complain they need more computers, smart thing or self driving cars. They might actually need less of this but still consume it because it is in fact the things they can afford.

Also in the EU there is a growing and undeniable regulatory framework which is destroying the local tech industry.

What I mean is we could see the type of shift that you only see once in a lifetime. Where computer tech see the same fate as agriculture and manufacturing had.

Hard to tell if this is just a hiccup or the start of the destruction of the tech jobs market.
Where are you getting your 2x from?
I have both and n100 is significantly faster/snappier/more pleasant even in terminal.

N100 have a significantly faster ssd, gpu and faster ram.

You can get Radha x4 for similar size too
This. If Google kept at “Pages must be short and provide straight answers”, then we’d have much better search results today.

Google is machine-gunning its foot since 2021, it’s really unclear to me whether they’re killing their baby just to make the job harder for competitors or something. For now… I open the Google Search results with a machete, and often don’t find any answer.

Talk about severing your own foot to avoid gangrene.
The report mentions that as a contributing factor.
Agreed, while paying to reduce spam may work in other contexts, in this setting the incentives don't align. Imagine if Linkedin got paid every time you applied for a listing, the pile of ghost jobs would be practically infinite.
Mostly a lot of work got things fixed. But also, around 2000 society wasn't nearly as automated as it is now. I'm sure it would have caused major outages if nothing had been done but whole continents wouldn't have starved :)

If the same thing were to happen tomorrow then yes, shit would really hit the fan.

Luckily IT is no longer the cowboy landscape it used to be. Sure there's still a lot of messing around but it's not like in the late 90s. I worked for a major company that had every laptop's administrator password set to <simple word>123 . That sort of stuff. I'm kinda surprised that didn't lead to really major hacks.
I am with you on that. applying for jobs indiscriminately is bad. but right now llms have got to a point where they are pretty good at pattern matching job requirements with skills in my resume. it's smart enough to not apply for php heavy projects/jobs when given a MERN stack developer resume.

I saw this as a marketing kind of problem, your conversion is based both on number and quality of your leads.
You must be a troll.
What a relief then that those are all healthy, well-supported organizations with bright futures.

It's not a coincidence that the solution to this problem is exactly the organizations that are being systematically undermined and dismantled.
Which would be great, except for that I found the top google result to be more than 70% relevant to my searches in the past, its a clear downgrade of relevancy.
France is known for being very Paris-centric in terms of transportation infrastructure.
Basically my approach as well. The problem is that your well-thought-through application will get lost in a sea of applicants (many using tools similar to the one shown above). The tools used by the recruiters/HR also suck and can be easily gamed (ie strategically spreading keywords/phrases throughout the resume even if the candidate has no actual experience). The end result is hiring managers cannot find good candidates to interview, and good candidates cannot get interviews.

The core problem is not that the systems suck but that so many people in IT lost their jobs in the last 2-3 years so that they don't have a choice other than to spray-and-pray (in the end of the day you need to put the food on the table).

Things won't improve until hiring recovers (increase in labor demand), and some IT professionals probably will pivot to other industries (decrease in labor supply), as it happened in 2000 and again in 2008.
I don't know what you're talking about that isn't within a sovereign country's rights.

Do you think russia was "provoked into invading" ? Just come out and say it.
That sounds like something Harlan Ellison would grouch about.
That's a very pessimistic take. It's right about 50% of the time!
Of course the savvy are using LLMs now, but they’re also reckoning with two things:

* you have to check an LLM result, especially if it cites something (because it may or may not exist)

* you can’t cite an LLM result

It’s a useful tool, but it lacks certain utility features that a useful web + effective search has. Or had.
Health insurance isn't /that/ big of an issue due to Obamacare and similar state programs. Yes, could have to pay almost $1k/mo to get insurance, but it's just one more expense along with rent, food, etc. It is more expensive than getting healthcare via an employer due to tax breaks, group negotiations, etc, it shouldn't stop people from going solo if they just treat it as another expense.
While you have documentation about migrating to your platform, you don't seem to have any documented promises around export and leaving your service.

Also, it seems a bit odd to me that the "balance sheet" ability is two non-free pricing levels deep into your service. Isn't that a baseline expectation?
+1 with your assessment of trending towards a hagiography. The author is not Isaacson. I wish he had spent more time with the people that probably don’t have the best view of Huang’s methods, and approach to running the company. Showing the other side in a more vivid way so the reader can make their own conclusion would strengthen the book and provide a holistic, fuller profile of Huang and Nvidia. Probably the price for access, and still better than nothing…

Nvidia appears to be another pressure-cooker, dog-eat-dog SV company, that outlasted competitors thanks to shrewd bets and urgent execution. Clearly, a great accomplishment, but we’ve seen other companies succeed with similar culture… this isn’t a “new way”… a relentless, obsessive, ruthless technical founder with good business sense (Huang like Gates were able to secure partnerships/licenses of needed technology early on.. same mold as Musk, Zuck) who understands the technology and business implications in detail is a movie we’ve seen before..
The AI answers are nowhere near good enough to always be at the top, without any clear indication that they are just a rough guess. Especially for critical things like visa requirements or medical information. When you search Google for these sort of things, you want the link to the authoritative source, not a best guess. It’s very different for queries like say “movies like blade runner”.
This is only a distraction. There is literally no reason other than keeping the prices up for the government to build more and more housing.
The people with the power (money) to do so have no incentive to do so because they hold real estate which keeps going up because of the shortage. Why work against yourself?
Were you not googling before? They had a bullet point summary that was actually more accurate because it scraped direct quotes from the website. Now I am getting wrong info from the ai summary. Its a huge step back from just what was there previously but its sold as some advancement.
Once chatGPT and Claude (through MCP) added web search functionality I completely dropped Perplexity. I assume I'm not unique in this regard. Feels like the writing is on the wall for Perplexity.
They want to damage NATO members' infrastructure without resorting to an overt kinetic attack, which would likely be answered with a precision hit against Russia's own infrastructure/ships.
The representation of n has 2^n vertices. 2^2039484 might be a bit too large to render...
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AI is just doing what SEO people have been doing for decades, inflating results that have no business being there. At least now there's no pretention of having any skills.
Couple revered for Japanese language test to keep going
With regards to the Maui fire, no one is talking abt the crisis that FEMA themselves created. They didn’t care about how much or how negligently the money was distributed, so FEMA would offer 2X current rates (upwards of $7000/month) to landlords which incentivized them to kick out existing tenants and cause a bigger problem but no one talks about it. It’s gross incompetence but the media is silent about it.
Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL
My anecdotal study, I had an awful case of reflux, my doctor told me to lose weight. Right after that I moved to a place that was more conducive to outdoor exercise and started walking for miles a day, at least 30 miles a week.

That did it, I didn't lose any weight but the reflux was gone completely.

I moved again and where I live now is not as good for outdoor activity, but it hasn't come back yet. I still walk at least a mile a day, maybe that's enough for me. If not, at least I know the prescription for me if it comes back.
Netflix has been fine for me. My wife and I watch maybe 3h of TV a week and across all the streaming channels I usually find something. Arcane was the last show we saw and it's a Netflix original and it's quite good.

Plus Netflix has a lot of anime and I like that.
I routinely save to a file before execution, but it's not really about being attacked. It's about the fact that those scripts, in order to be "fire and forget", make many assumptions, often very large ones, about where I want things or under what user, etc.

Many of them are actually quite well-written under the hood and can be easily moved to other directories, have comments about what it is doing, etc.
Where do you think those big missile barrages are coming from - Black Sea dolphins? You clearly spend too much time on reddit - sure, their carrier, Mosvka and that sub were ancient. But their recent boats are capable and pack a lot of offensive punch. One of their new corvettes could probably disable a carrier battle group. Only fools and immature people play the "the other side is incompetent and has shitty gear" game. I can assure you, the Pentagon and other Western militaries take it all very seriously.
It probably exploded near the aircraft. That would explain the shrapnel damage.
For quick simple steps like how to get a Bluetooth keyboard into pairing mode, it seems to work really well. I hated the prior world where everyone attempted to hide the real answer 3/4ths of the way through a useless blog post or YouTube video.
It is very sad that you kind of people exist as professor. Yes he is wrong. But you can appreciate that and knowing effectively he is cursing you about your assignment. Take it open mind. Call him in. Explain your view. And if he cannot do it, fail him. But if he can. Move on.

IT need innovation. As you are not just building systems or maintaining one, you need to people think beyond what is assigned. As most likely it is this innovation drive us.

Not rule followers. Obviously we need those as well. But a few rule breaker does not kill you.

Unless he goes all the way to say to the whole class not to be rule followers. That is revolution. ... I may still with him but I would understand then you fail him. But if just one ... why not accept computer or IT guys has exception. After all are we in hacker news. Do you have all those rule followers are reading these!
Observations of linguistic similarities informed a hypothesis that some groups of languages are more alike than others.
Data (genetics) is collected and used to confirm or contradict the hypothesis.

Textbook science process.
Bottles to be rewritten in Rust and libcosmic
Time on task only matters for the lowest paid. At high levels robust, predictable, and other characteristics compete strongly for value. Do you want the most accurate medical diagnosis or the fastest?
Apple's search is Google search. Google pays Apple $20 billion a year for that.
Not anymore. Prabhakar was promoted from Head of Search to Chief Technologist whatever that means.
It sounds romantic until they cancel your train or it is hours late, missed transfers, dirty cabins, etc. It's all a crap shoot on whether you get a nice train and everything goes smoothly. I've traveled by train in Germany, Poland, Czechia, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine, etc.

Driving your vehicle is the best way to go if you want to enjoy the sights on the way.
Prabhakar Raghavan was recently "promoted" out of that: https://www.wheresyoured.at/requiem-for-raghavan/
Full cavity search (of the ship)
Why? Housing shortages are an obvious "the worse for you, the better for me" benefit for the haves.
>Another thing that’s really weird and related is another recurring theme in the American ethos: the cultural shame that comes with living “at home” or staying in the same small town for your whole life. Somehow they made it so living close to your family and friends for your 20s-30s and maybe forever means you’re a “loser”.

The older I get, the more I regret moving away from my family and friends in New Jersey. I'm only 3 hours away so still see them about once a month, but I'm very envious of my friends that stayed in our home town and get to see each other every weekend and their children get to spend daily time with their grandparents.

Whenever we consider moving back though, housing prices are always one of the biggest deterrents.
No.

I don't whant to write Java, let alone in *vim.
I switched because all my coworkers use VSC, just easier to have extensions like linters and goto definitions synced, we can help each other with any issues in the workflow.

Still use emacs + org mode for notes though, and spent quite a lot of time getting VSC to act like emacs in terms of shortcuts etc.
I’ve tried out a few distros for vim and emacs over the years and usually drop them after a few hours of trying. But I gotta say I’m really enjoying LazyVim. It’s config layering system makes tweaking any specific plugin settings very easy, and it’s based on the “lazy.nvim” plugin manager that most plugins feature first in their README intros these days. That means there’s less a feeling of doing things “the normal way” vs “the weird distro specific way” that I experienced with DOOM EMacs and SpaceVim.

It’s definitely still a kitchen sink, lots of stuff that I wouldn’t configure on my own, but surprisingly discoverable via a popup that shows available keyboard shortcuts that appears after you type LEADER and wait a moment.

It’s also super fast to start up, putting most destros out there especially EMacs ones to shame.

The main downside is it encourages you to spread out your config in multiple Lua files, and overall learn and use more Lua stuff. But I think it’s worth the price.
Of course OpenAI can't stuff their UI with ads yet. In the middle of escalating anti-AI sentiment due to the rapid slopification of the infosphere that they intiated? With cultural resentment growing over the devaluation of visual evidence? With video and audio modalities creating distrust and obsolescence in the creative class?

Google only had to provide superior value with a clean UI. OpenAI has to contend with normalizing the mechanisms that are upsetting the lives of the customer base that pays them; the customers they'll replace with ad servers as soon as it becomes prudent to start indicating their end-game.
I'm saying both Ukraine's surrender and the Russian pull-out are equally hard to do from their respective perspectives.

Which is completely ludicrous, of course.

For Ukraine, "surrender" means accepting permanent occupation and subjugation.

For Russia, it means they get egg on their face, basically. It will just go back to its corner and sulk for a while. Definitely very doable, as it's something they've done many times in the past.

There's simply no comparison.

And there's no symmetry at all between the two sides in this conflict.
We don't know. The best we can do is model it as a random variable based on what little data we do have. What data do we have? Well over 2 million border encounters for 2023 and 2024. For a nation of over 350 million that doesn't sound like much but remember, housing is an inelastic good where a 1% fluctuation in the supply can be an absolute shock to the system.

These people have to live somewhere — and whether they're taking up a single bedroom or an entire residence, they're living somewhere. So I don't think you should be downvoted. There's nothing wrong with asking about how an uncountable yet sizable population will affect the dynamics of an inelastic good.
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This is true, but fairly or unfairly, asking a question to a chat bot feels like “opting in” to the possibility that the answers you get will be hallucinated garbage, in a way that doing a Google search does not. It’s a tough problem for Google to overcome— the fact that they will be held to a higher standard—- but that’s what it is: we have already learned to accept bullshit from LLMs as a fact of life, whereas on the top of Google results it feels like an outrage.
It appears that %6.9 of the houses for rent in USA are vacant: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf

Is this efficient?
Brave. It's Chrime with builtin ad blocking.